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Writer's pictureOlivia Yarteh

50 Creative Ways To Make Money In 2022!

Updated: Aug 16, 2022





Have you been sitting day in and out wondering how to make more money? Have you been wondering how to make extra money without clocking in? Or have you ever sat and said how will I make money and invest in business/entrepreneurship when I'm living from paycheck to paycheck?

You are not alone. We have wondered the same things in the past. Gratefully social media has helped us to think outside the box. In our business we learned how much not having enough money affects many things around us: one being our credit reports/scores. Payment history is 35% and Utilization is 30% of your credit scoring according to (forbes.com/advisor/credit-score.)

If you don't have enough money to pay bills on time your score plummets. As a result your left with less than perfect credit which causes you to pay more in general. This could include: high car payment interest, high utility bill deposits, high apartment rental deposits, car insurance, high credit card interest and so much more.

Take a look at these creative alternatives to making money.




1. UBER/LYFT- Start driving and give people ride's with your car if you have one. This takes you from employee to self employed. Its a great option while you work on managing your finances. You can start using the extra money to start your business and entrepreneur ventures.


2. VIRTUAL ASSISTANT You can offer assistance with anything you can do for any business. Some of the sites that you can feature your help would be: UPWORK, FANCY HANDS, ZIRTUAL, and BELAY.


3.SALES & MARKETING ( This would be a career option. You would work for a great company based on reviews with an excellent commission structure. They will train you and pay you. This advice comes from the book Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert K. He talks about working but not for pay, but for skills and training. Being able to sell and properly communicate with various personalities is so under rated. With sales the earning potential can be unlimited. Essentially you carry this skill for life with you. Once you learn and master selling you will win whether you stay with the company or not.

4. AIRBNB/OFFICE CLEANING GIGS Find Airbnb's or offices and start cleaning. You can look for cleaning gigs on UPSHIFT.


5.WHOLESALE PROPERTIES

Our personal favorite! The income potential is rewarding for this side hustle. You get paid for a small amount of your time, just to connect investors and sellers. Contact investors who are looking to fix n flip or even ones that buy n hold land/houses; and get to work with properties from sellers. This takes little to no money depending on how dedicated you are. Using propstream is a great way to start it helps you connect with your buyers and sellers for a smoother transaction.



6. DISPATCHER FOR TRUCKERS/TOW COMPANIES. Independently become a tow truck dispatcher and start your own dispatch company. You can take a course called: TRUCK DISPATCHER TRAINING on UDEMY to get started. YOUTUBE also has many videos on the subject.


7.CREATE A COURSE ON TEACHABLE.COM, UDEMY, COUSERA This one is so easy!! Create a course and share the knowledge you have and sell it! PRO TIP: Make sure you learn to sell. Take a course on selling or get a mentor it will help accelerate your business.


8. DROPSHIPPING This model is one of the best ways to get and keep extra money. The drop shipping model is super easy. You can start on SHOPIFY add your products and a third party fulfills the order and you keep the profits. They have the inventory so you don't have to ship anything out which makes it easier for you to advertise and market your business!


9.EVENT PLANNING Start with family and friends create lavish birthday, weddings, church events etc. Take astounding photos and post on social media. Use the photos to attract new paying clients. AGAIN with sales and marketing this skill is needed so you wont give up! FIND your audience and make money. Don't have money? no worries, include your supplies in your cost so you don't have to worry about where the money will come from for decorations etc. Pro Tip: Make the deposit the amount of the supplies that way you don't lose until you can find balance. In your policy you can make this non refundable or half refundable. Your Choice.


10. AIRBNB HOST Become a host and list your place as the perfect spot to stay overnight or for vacation. This may require corporate leasing we don't recommend subletting without the owners permission if you are a renter so try your best to be honest.


11. TURO /GET AROUND HOST You could list one of your cars on Turo/Get Around. If you only have one car at the moment you could still list the car, as TURO/GET AROUND has a nice policy for HOST. Be sure to weigh the pros and cons.


12. REAL ESTATE AGENT/ASSISTANT There is so much money to be made in this industry. If your reading this RUN now and get your license. It cost next to nothing to get it. With the way the market is now if you can get in we would recommend getting a license now. Some brokerages will offer to pay for your license. Just search on indeed for : real estate agent you will see some of the post will say they will pay for your real estate education. Groupon also has great deals for the course. State testing and licensing may be eligible to be waived if you are low income check your states requirements.





13.AMAZON FLEX This one is simple you use your own car just like you would with UBER to deliver packages instead of driving people around. Great way to make extra money.


14. CEATE REELS FB/INSTAGRAM/TIK TOK Creators can earn reel play bonuses by creating reels on FB and IG. Its simple just be you and create content that people love from you. You get paid based on the amount of plays your reels get.


15.SELF PUBLISH AN EBOOK/BOOK Tap into your creative side and publish a book/eBook. Write a manuscript on Word and submit it on Amazons eBook self publishing platform called KDP. (Any hardcover book must be a min of 75 pages.

Once published you can make money on each sale of the copy sold. Be creative write about what you've always wanted to write about.


16. FIVERR/ESTY/CAFEPRESS/TASKRABBIT Offer your work i.e.: graphic designs, website design, logo designs, social media content planner, illustrations.


17. TUTOR/DO HOMEWORK FOR OTHERS. Sites that you can offer to do homework for others are popular these days ie: Sweet Study, School Solver, 24 hour answers, Chegg Tutors, Tutor.com, Help with Assignment.


18.YOUTUBE CHANNEL Start a channel and find your niche. You can talk about whatever you want. Our biggest mistake was waiting for the perfect moment to start. If you are camera shy start a faceless YouTube. Use PEXELS OR CANVA and add free stock images and videos to your YouTube. Record your messages such as affirmations or even bible scriptures and merge the sound of your voice with the free images/videos.


19. KIDS YOUTUBE TOY CHANNEL If you have kids turn them into the next YouTube star for toy reviews. WARNING you might have to play with them and join in on the fun lol.



20.START INVESTING Once you set up a budget let your left over money wok for you. This money can go into investments such as: Tax Lien Certificates, Land, Stocks, Crypto etc.


21. Join our Call Center as a Work From Home Customer Service Agent. Up to 16 an hour. Work for major brands such as Disney, Coach, Home Depot, and Princess Cruises. Pays Hourly and Some Commission !!!!

This requires your own equipment : laptop and headset. The background check is required and cost 30$. Once your in and signed up you can work as much as you want and work on your own time and set your own hours. Send resumes to contact@nextupstaffing.info.


22.AFFLIATE MARKETING This option is fun and you can set up an account with SHOPIFY or TIKTOK for business to get started. You get paid to be an affiliate of a company by driving traffic to their website by promoting their items. You can be an affiliate for SEPHORA, TARGET, AMAZON, and TEACHABLE.


23.LIVEOPS Work from home as a customer service agent with LIVEOPS. You have to pass a background check with them but once that is passed you can work as an agent and choose any company they have featured. Pay ranges from $16-25 an hour depending on the company. You choose your own hours so you don't have to worry about how it fits in your schedule. Background check is paid by you fees may vary!


24.START A BLOG Start your own blog and earn money off ads plugged into the blog. Choose your niche or write about sponsored products, reviews, and earn money blogging.


25. NETWORK MARKETING You can start networking and team building with different companies and make extra money. Note This is not for the weak in heart you will face rejection like never before especially from friends and family. But if you can be consistent and faithful you can reap the benefits and funds from the business model.


26. START AN ONLINE COMMUNITY Like PATREON, or GUMROAD charge a membership fee or charge for courses. Bring together courses and communities together under your own brand.




27. NOTARY PUBLIC Become a notary public with your state. Florida has the course for free you just pay your state fees. Florida copy and paste this link into a browser and create an account it takes a few hours to get through the course. (http://notaries.dos.state.fl.us/education/instructions.html)


Yes the bank does notary for free. But when you cant go to the bank people need notaries to come to them to witness them signing contracts for anything. From car deals and home deals etc.


28. ADVERTISE FOR COMPANIES Wrap your car with ads from CARVERTISE and NICKELYTICS. These companies will pay you to wrap your car in their ads. If you already drive around frequently you could make passive money.


29.AIRBNB CO HOST You can look for Airbnb host and offer to assist to manage their Airbnb properties. Facebook groups and communities are the best way to advertise and offer to be a cohost. You will offer to act as their manager for client issues and emergencies. Also offering cleaning helps to beat some of the competition.




30. LAWN CARE Provide lawn care services with basic equipment for neighbors family etc. Showcase your work and upgrade clients by adding on services such as pressure washing fences, sidewalks etc.


31.START A PODCAST You can start a podcast and make money by direct support or sponsorship.


32.CREDIT CONSULTANT Become a credit consultant help other people repair their credit once you learn how to analyze and repair a credit report. Google and YouTube have great videos on Credit Repair. Use A CRM such as credit repair cloud to keep track of clients and letters you will send for them.


33. BABYSITTING This one is a older option but it can work if you need extra funds. Offer to watch kids of friends and family. Make sure they pay you!


34.BECOME A TAX PREPARER This course is offered for free by H&R Block and a few other tax companies. You will have to buy your own books and course material which isn`t costly. Once you learn you can make a good amount of money helping others to file their returns. Starting January-May.


35.COOK Start cooking online and offline. You could sell plates of food or brand yourself online and sell an e-cook book.


36. DO HAIR /MAKEUP/NAILS You can do hair make up and nails for others. If you have the skills promote it by practicing on family and friends you can start using social media to promote your work.


37. SELL LIFE INSURANCE You can sell life insurance and make good money and choose your own time to work. You will have to get a life insurance license in order to sell life insurance products. Once you take the 60 hour course, you will schedule to take the test. Once you past and get licensed, you can look for any company to represent and start selling their products.


38. FINANCIAL ADVISOR FINRA SERIES 6 OR 7 is needed to be a financial advisor. Some companies will even sponsor you like the snapshot below. The income potential is really great once you learn the business.



39. AUTO DETAILING Start by washing cars always use friends and family for practice and take pictures this is the top advice for most ventures like this. You don`t have to charge them since your are trying to perfect your craft. Once you start getting paid clients get creative. Offer to travel to them and wash on site whatever it takes to make them happy and for you to get paid and tipped generously.


40. INFLUENCER Become an Instagram influencer. Find your niche and develop a great content strategy, it doesn`t have to be hard or perfect and don`t over think it. This really works if you just be yourself and be consistent. Build a website and monetize from your influence. Don`t forget to have a relationship with your audience and have fun.


41. FITNESS GROUP If your a fitness enthusiast start a fitness group. Offer meal plans based on what you think could help others, and by introducing what has helped you through fitness. you can do one on ones or charge people for group classes and fitness bootcamps. Take it a step further and get licensed/ certified to become a master in fitness.









42.SHORT TERM LEASING Rent out your house or extra bedroom on short term leases. You can rent to those who are college students or those who are trying to relocate from out of state. You can charge for month to month and make money from those who need the flexibility of not being locked into a traditional lease.


43.MOBILE MECHANIC A mobile mechanic can meet you wherever you are to repair your car. If you plan on doing this independently you would need to contact your county`s clerks office in your state to see if any licenses are needed.











44. PHOTOGRAPHER Start taking photos perfecting your craft anywhere and with anyone that will allow you to. You could even practice by taking product photos using house hold items. This is a potential side hustle that can pay you well if you are consistent and always perfecting your craft.


45. TRANSLATOR If you speak multiple languages this could be beneficial to you. You can offer your services on INDEED, ADD IT TO YOUR RESUME, OR MARKET YOUR SKILL ON FB. Either way earning is made easy with this option as long as you are completely fluent.


46.VENDING MACHINES Start by acquiring your own vending machine and selling whatever you want in it. Some more creative vending machines have included baby items, beauty and cosmetics, even shoes. The options are unlimited if you can imagine it and there's a need for it.


47. DOOR DASH/UBER EATS This one is made super easy all you need is a car or bike and you can start to deliver good eats and make some good side cash and tips. Download the app from UBER OR DOOR DASH to get started today.


48. CREATE AN APP Create your own app with BUBBLE. This platform is good because no coding is needed. Build your app launch and monetize off your app. You can make others pay for you app or offer it free with paid ads in your app that upgrades certain features for free.






49. FURNITURE MOVING Become a mover. Rent a UHAL truck or use your own truck and offer your services on TASK RABBIT AND FB MARKETPLACE. You may want to get licensed in your state to do this business, and get business insurance, as well as legal documents that protect you and the clients you may service.


50. IMAGE CONSULTANT Help others make a beautiful impact for themselves personally and professionally. You must have expertise in marketing and fashion. Attend workshops to perfect your craft or become AICI certified in image consulting. Its not just clothing its a lifestyle and people will pay you to invest your time in their overall image.

Bonus Tips:

****Tithe & Offerings/ Give To The Needy. This tip is our personal favorite. When recently reading the book Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert K. In this book he talks about how his rich dad would prioritize giving back 10% of his income to church and charities. His rich dad truly believed to be truly rich we need to be able to give as well as to receive.

In our opinion you could also offer your time as well. Try and find a local place to volunteer at; sometimes your wealth steams from a deposit that involves your presence.

***Budget. Budgeting ensures you have left over money to invest in your future. The time to start is now you can handwrite your budget or use an app like MINT to help you organize and set limits.

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